After years of searching the world for just the right case trimmer without success, our ballistic technicians demanded that BPI make this convenient and necessary tool. A threaded adjustment gauge in the Trim Doctor holds shells in alignment to produce a clean and crimpable edge. The Trim Doctor is designed to remove 1/4" at a time (about the same as full fold crimp): 3" shells become 2-3/4", 2-3/4" become 2-1/2". Two full cuts on a 10 gauge shell produce a 2-7/8" shell. Select the gauge of your new Trim Doctor; it comes with one gauge adaptor bushing.Our new ExactaTrim adaptor bushings assure tight cuts with no spiraling and they are available in additional sizes to make your Trim Doctor even more versatile:

As a shell disassembly tool, the Trim Doctor works on any gauge, 10ga through 20ga. Just remove the threaded guide, insert loaded shell into opening and gently turn the shell while applying slight pressure to the blade guide. The top of shell will pop off cleanly after a few turns.

The Trim Doctor will pay for itself many times over by allowing you to retrieve components from reject shells and by allowing further firings out of many hulls with tired crimps.

"I started roll crimping in 1970 using an old hand crank crimper on Federal paper hulls. I started doing it again just recently due to the availability of straight wall hulls and it is something to do in my retirement. Your Spin Dr. and hull cutter are indispensable."

This is a great tool, I used it to trim 1000 federal paper hulls that I am using to load black power for my old double hammer gun in cowboy action shooting. Roll Crimping. The adaptor bushing did not fit on the paper hulls but I was able to hold pressure on the bottom of the hull as I turned. The threaded guide was a big help making all 1000 hulls exactly the same length The cuts were perfect. If for any reason you need to trim your shells, get this tool.

I use the trimmer for preparing hulls for my 2 1/2 Iinch chamber16 gauge guns. It does a perfect cutting job, but I have to disassemble and reset the tool after each use in order to remove the cut off section. Am I doing something wrong?

- Bill Deutermann, PA

SLUG CRIMP CORRECTION

USED TO TAKE AWAY EXTRA HULL MATERIAL FOR ROLL CRIMP INSTEAD OF ADDING CARD OR GAS SEAL TO MOVE SLUG FORWARD. GOOD MOVE ON MY PART. ROLL CRIMPING IS A FUNNY THING. A SMALL AMOUNT OF CRIMP PRESSURE JUST PAST COMPRESSING THE COMPONETS IS ALL YOU NEED.

BILL

Once again--wish Id bought this long ago!

Just bought the Trim Doctor because Im starting to roll crimp. The tool is nicely made, much more substantial than I was expecting--the pictures in the catalog do not do the tool justice. It is solid, and it functions perfectly. Jeremys video is a good tutorial, too, as he includes some good tips that are not included in the written instructions.

- Tom A, MD

bushings for 28 and 410

Can you produce bushings for 28 and 410? With shot prices so high I shoot these more than 20 gauge.

Steve

Bushings

Great tool, but why dont you have a 28ga bushing?

- David Colburn, CO

Such a simple idea, but cant live without...

This review is for the 12 gauge Trim Doctor case tool... ... ... I ordered this being I was experimenting with a new load recipe and have made a few trial and error hulls, enough where I didnt want to sit around half the evening cutting apart with my barlow knife. First I was thinking I would use this tool only a few times then just gather dust, but when I got this, it is built very very well. Nice thick hard nylon/plastic type construction. I read the easy to follow instructions and worked like a charm for me. The cuts square up beautifully although you want to practice with a few hulls to get the feel of it... ... ...I can now easily see myself getting into 3 inch loading and when the crimps are no good any more, using this fine tool to spend an evening cutting the 3 inch hulls down to 2 3/4 inch hulls making for a brand new hull basically, minus needing a primer swag tool and skiver that BPI also sells here... ... ... This tool literally just opened up a wide new range of load/hull options for experimenting with many different BPI recipes with 3 inch and then converting them down to 2.75 inch hulls... ... ... Even blade replacement is easy, and this doesnt use some exotic hard to find blade, you really can find these blades at any decent hardware store, but I do believe BPI also sells the replacements here just in case you want to add them to an order... ... ... If I knew how this tool would open up new future possibilities I would of bought this a long time ago, but very happy I got now. This will sit proudly in my shotgun reloading toolbox at my reloading station until needed again... ... ...Heck, I might even have to get a shotgun chambered for 3 1/2inch hulls then work down to 3 inch then 2.75 inch which will give me all kind of new load recipes to experiment with~ Happy Reloading!!!